'''''Sidekicks''''' is a 1992 film about a kid named Barry Gabrewski who has asthma. He has a lot of daydreams about being Creator/ChuckNorris' sidekick, the two of them battling against Norris' movie enemies who are often personified by Barry's school bullies. He lives with his father Jerry Gabrewski, a widower.

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'''''Sidekicks''''' ''Sidekicks'' is a 1992 film about a kid named Barry Gabrewski (Jonathan Brandis) who has asthma. He has a lot of daydreams about being Creator/ChuckNorris' sidekick, the two of them battling against Norris' movie enemies who are often personified by Barry's school bullies. He lives with his father Jerry Gabrewski, Gabrewski (Beau Bridges), a widower.

'''''Sidekicks''''' is a 1992 film about a kid named Barry Gabrewski who has asthma. He has a lot of daydreams about being ChuckNorris' sidekick, the two of them battling against Norris' movie enemies who are often personified by Barry's school bullies. He lives with his father Jerry Gabrewski, a widower.

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'''''Sidekicks''''' is a 1992 film about a kid named Barry Gabrewski who has asthma. He has a lot of daydreams about being ChuckNorris' Creator/ChuckNorris' sidekick, the two of them battling against Norris' movie enemies who are often personified by Barry's school bullies. He lives with his father Jerry Gabrewski, a widower.

* ArchEnemy: For some reason, Stone has it in for Chuck Norris. It may be jealousy, or maybe he's just an overconfident jerkass who thinks Chuck's skills are overrated. Either way, Stone gets his ass handed to him in a match with Chuck during the karate tournament.

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* ArchEnemy: For some reason, Stone has it in for Chuck Norris.Norris, though Norris knows who he is, so they've likely met before. It may be jealousy, or maybe he's just an overconfident jerkass who thinks Chuck's skills are overrated. Either way, Stone gets his ass handed to him in a match with Chuck during the karate tournament.

Barry is taught martial arts by an old Chinese man called Mr. Lee ({{Mako}}), the sly uncle of his teacher Ms. Noreen Chan (Julia Nickson-Soul). Mr. Lee decides to teach Barry some martial arts so that he can defend himself from the bullies, foremost among those being Randy Cellini. Barry later enters a tournament where he confronts his bullies and gets to fight alongside Chuck Norris after all.

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Barry is taught martial arts by an old Chinese man called Mr. Lee ({{Mako}}), ({{Creator/Mako}}), the sly uncle of his teacher Ms. Noreen Chan (Julia Nickson-Soul). Mr. Lee decides to teach Barry some martial arts so that he can defend himself from the bullies, foremost among those being Randy Cellini. Barry later enters a tournament where he confronts his bullies and gets to fight alongside Chuck Norris after all.

* PlotHole: At the tournament, Barry's team wins the breaking, men's fighting, and weapons categories and comes in second in the women's kata. Stone Dojo won women's kata and took second in fighting and breaking. Even assuming they took second in weapons, how are the two teams tied in points?

* FollowTheLeader: A film in the mold of ''TheKarateKid''.* [[HotForStudent Hot For Teacher]]: This was probably unintentional, but Ms. Chan keeps appearing as a DistressedDamsel in Barry's Chuck Norris fantasies. Thankfully, she is eventually replaced by his more age-appropriate crush, Lauren.

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* FollowTheLeader: A film in the mold of ''TheKarateKid''.''Film/TheKarateKid''.* [[HotForStudent Hot For for Teacher]]: This was probably unintentional, but Ms. Chan keeps appearing as a DistressedDamsel DamselInDistress in Barry's Chuck Norris fantasies. Thankfully, she is eventually replaced by his more age-appropriate crush, Lauren.

* SadistTeacher: PE TeacherTeacher. Although he does complement Barry once he stands up to Randy during class.

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**Eventually played straight later on; Mr. Lee visits Barry in the hospital, and comments that Barry was training too hard, at too fast a pace. This convinces Lee that Barry is serious about wanting to train, and works Barry at a slower pace. During one of their later running sessions, Barry unknowingly leaves his inhalor behind, which Lee retrieves with some amusement.

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